Sugar addiction

[fozzybear]

I've recently been trying to cut out sugar from my diet by having sweeteners in my tea and generally eating healthier (high fibre diet). Having 36 jaffa cakes in one sitting wasn't doing me much good!

The problem is that I feel like crap. I'm irritable, tired and cannot concentrate. I've probably made the mistake of cutting it out all of a sudden rather than doing it slowly.

I just need some recommendations of snacks (low or zero sugar content) that could curb my craving. I seem to be eating oranges and rice pudding (yes, they have sugar in) at the moment. I haven't had chocolate or biscuits for around a week now.

I'm tempted to go back to having just 1 teaspoon of sugar in my tea and take it from there. I swear my body and mind is slowly shutting down.

 

[fozzybear]

You cant just reduce it, go cold turkey and in a few days youll be feeling better. Cut out the fruit and anything else with sugar to begin with and brake the cycle.

Dont worry about calorie intake to start eith, just eat high protein.

Once youve broken it and insulin response is reset then you can modify the diet.

What sort of thing could I eat for dessert or pudding if I cut out oranges and other sweet stuff?

I might have to eat more apples, peaches and melon. They have less sugar than oranges don't they?

 

[fozzybear]

Dont, why do you need a pudding every day.
There still high in sugar, you are better giving up sugar totaly for say teo weeks, before rein troducing some, to break the cycle.

Is that possible? It's inbred in me that you have a pudding after a main meal.

I'll give it a go.

I was going to replace the sweeteners with honey in my tea but I think I'll just have one sweetener instead now.

Thanks for all the other suggestions. I've bought some honey and some crunchy peanut butter (Whole Earth no added sugar). I also got some cream crackers to have as a snack. Is that a no no? What other crackers could I get to go with a bit of honey or peanut butter?

The reason I'm doing this is not because I was getting massively overweight. I did notice my waistline expanding though. It's just that I've been addicted to sugar from a kid. I could eat cheesecakes and drink Pepsi like they were going out of fashion. I just sense too much sugar has had other effects on my health like my mood and state of being.

I can already notice my stomach flattening out after only week of massively reducing my sugar intake. I use to struggle bending over to tie my shoe lace before.

Finally, I was going to grab a packet of dates to snack on. Are they something to avoid?

 

[fozzybear]

I'm actually doing well resisting granulated sugar and chocolate/biscuits. I still haven't touched them. They were my main weakness and the vast majority of my sugar intake was from them.

It's actually much easier than I thought it would be. I've lost a ton of flab from around my stomach and I'm also sleeping much better.

Almost caved in and bought some kit-kats in Tesco last night before remembering how well I was doing. I'm still eating a little bit of sweet stuff mainly porridge with a bit of honey, rice pudding or the odd cracker with peanut butter.